# Raymond Besse artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/raymond-besse/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T18:43:02.480Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1899-12-26
- Death date: 1969-03-05
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Painting

## About Raymond Besse

Raymond Besse (1899–1969) was a French painter. Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF align on his identity and life years, while the collected French-language biographical record supplies the fuller dates and identifies Niort as his birthplace and Candé-sur-Beuvron as his place of death. The available sources do not establish a named movement, school, formal training, exhibition history, or institutional collection record, so those details should not be inferred. Wikimedia records associated with Besse show paintings titled for northern Paris, the Seine and Notre-Dame, a provincial French scene, mist, and a bouquet. These examples suggest that collectors may encounter urban views, landscapes, atmospheric scenes, and floral subjects under his name. They help describe the visible range represented in this source pack, but they are not a catalogue raisonné and do not authenticate any individual work. Identity, attribution, medium, and title should therefore be checked against the specific object and its documentation.

## Common works and media

The usable work-image records in the collected pack depict paintings titled Paris nord, Notre Dame, Province, La Brume, and Bouquet pour un ami. They indicate urban views, landscape or atmospheric scenes, and floral subject matter. The pack does not establish whether prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, posters, or editioned works form a significant part of Besse's auction output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's input associates 197 auction records with Raymond Besse, but the collected page response did not expose lot descriptions, sale dates, estimates, realized prices, condition reports, provenance, or attribution language. The pack also contains no accessible major-auction-house biography or results page. It therefore supports only a cautious overview: paintings are the relevant documented work type, while meaningful appraisal requires verified, genuinely comparable lots from their underlying catalogues. Object-specific details should be reviewed before comparisons are drawn. No typical value range, price trend, record price, scarcity claim, or prediction about future demand can be established from this source pack alone.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3420673
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500062240
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/315532622/
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Besse
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Besse
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/raymond-besse/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raymond_Besse..jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouquet_pour_un_ami.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Province_France.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raymond_Besse_La_brume.jpg